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8th July2003
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Bohle
UK
has introduced high-performance silicone sealants and a fast
curing mirror adhesive in a new value for money own brand range
for the glazing and construction industries
Now
is a good time for aluminium fenestration and fabrication companies
to take a look at the range of solutions offered by Italian manufacturer
Emmegi, and offered in the UK exclusively by Promac
'The Acell PVCu range of composite doors brings the benefits of composite technology within the reach of even the tightest of budgets' says the company
A
new development means that Packexe
Handy Wrap® can be printed with your logo in your company
colours.
Systems
manufacturer, Duraflex,
has launched a second generation version of its Slimline
Patio Door. Available in kit or bar length form, the new
range retains featured and bevelled frame options to match
the Diamond Suite
A
nearly-forgotten construction element made by Saint-Gobain
Oberland has made a dramatic comeback. Completed projects
in Germany and abroad suggest that the glass block is back
Vista
Panels Limited
has recently introduced two new star sellers into its Astral Collection
of glazing options
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PVCu vertical sliding windows from Kolorplas
have added a traditional touch to a distinctive new house
and conservatory in Worcestershire
In
one of its first applications, Pilkington
Pyrodur Plus specialist glass has been supplied and installed
in a new leisure centre in Manchester
Sheerframe
windows transformed Clougheast Castle which had been derelict
for 150 years into a haven of warmth and comfort, and
restored it to its former glory
Steve
Musgrave joins Synseal Extrusions
Ltd as Manufacturing Director Designate. Steve
is responsible for putting the necessary processes in place
that allow Synseal to operate at maximum efficiency
Sheerframe
windowmaker Radway Door and Windows
Limited has appointed John Park-Davies as sales
and marketing director
Paul
Stennett, formerly with global food ingredients company the
Braes Group Ltd, has been appointed chief executive officer
of the United Kingdom Accreditation
Service (UKAS)
Deserving
children from the North East enjoyed a VIP football day out
thanks to the generosity of one of Profile 22's major commercial
fabricators, Windowman UK Ltd.
Twenty
one Profile 22 employees
recently raised more than £1,500 in aid of Cancer Research
UK in a five kilometre Race for Life round Telford Town Park
A £5.5m equity fund, the first in Europe to focus specifically
on the recycling sector, has opened for business 50% oversubscribed
by the private sector.
The
real challenge facing the UK PVCu window industry will be how
to cope with the increasingly stringent demands for the cyclic
use of society's waste products such as post-consumer windows,
claims Dekura, the UK PVC
recycling company
A
new research programme aims to develop innovative construction
products utilising papermill waste.
The
British Plastics Federation (BPF)
has published a Directory of UK plastics recyclers.
Sentinel
Doors
is supplying forty-three of its Series 600 composite residential
doors for an energy efficiency programme for Fife Council
The
Vinyl Institute
has named the top-performing member companies in the vinyl (polyvinyl
chloride or PVC) industry for their efforts to improve worker
safety and protect the environment at plant sites globally
A
new multi-industry partnership is urging employers to support
a bid to form a new, employer-led Sector
Skills Council (SSC) which will bring together the
property services, housing, facilities management and cleaning
sectors. The SSC will drive forward a unified skills agenda for
a combined workforce of over two million people
Llandrillo
College based in Colwyn Bay, North Wales has become a Glass
Qualifications Authority (GQA) approved centre to offer
NVQ qualifications
It
is a sign of how little confidence some lenders have in smaller
contractors. A bank recently forced a medium-sized general contractor
to terminate its work on a new building at Western Kentucky
University’s Bowling Green campus even though the project
was 95% complete and proceeding on schedule.
Private
sector growth is forecast to fall sharply over the next three
years according to the Construction
Products Association's latest Construction Industry
Forecasts, with output in 2003 forecast to grow by just 1.9%,
dropping to 1% in 2004, with a slight rise in 2005 to 1.1%.
Trade
and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt recently announced the
responsibilities of the new Ministerial team at the DTI
The
Pilkington corporate web
site was ‘Highly Commended’ in the category ‘Best
Investor Relations Web Site’ for a non-FTSE 100 company,
at the IR Magazine 2003 Awards, held in London on 30th June
Alcoa
has launched new websites for two of its major markets - Primary
Metals and Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC). These new sites outline
Alcoa's capabilities, solutions the company offers, locations
and nameplate capacity for Alcoa's aluminium smelters and alumina
refineries worldwide, and news from these markets
The
British Blind & Shutter Association (BBSA) has
recently launched a new website.
Solutia
has developed a design tool at its website. Visitors to the
site can experiment with Vanceva design in the online interactive
studio, where they will be able to produce their own coloured
and patterned laminated glass designs.
PVCu
fabricators and installers can now access specialist advice
and information on recycling through Dekura's
new website
Glass
and glazing specialist Norman &
Underwood has achieved EN1279 - a coveted accreditation
which is soon to mark a universal quality standard for the whole
of Europe.
Chiltern
Dynamics and BM TRADA Certification
have launched new services to help IG manufacturers. with EN1279.
The
up-to-date position on EN 1279 is as follows:
'What
about the future when the calls for even greater thermal efficiency
grow ever louder, as no doubt they will?' asks Edgetech.
More
here
The
World's Gone a bit Topsy Turvy
Maybe
it's the prospect of having an English cricket team actually capable
of beating someone, or maybe it's the looming Holiday Season: whatever
it is, there are strange things going on. How about this for starters
- Masco is selling some of its companies after a buying streak
which has lasted several years. This shouldn't feel strange - after
all, it's what conglomerates do, but it still feels a bit odd.
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Technical Forum 2003
Now is the time to think about updating your technical knowledge with
the Federation's Technical Forum.
This year it will take place on 18-19 September 2003 at University
College Northampton
Glass
Processing & Technology Exhibition, NEC Birmingham 11-13th November
2003
glasstec 2004
From 9th to 13th November 2004, top decision-makers from the glass industry worldwide will once again converge on Düsseldorf
fensterbau/frontale 2004
The international trade fairs fensterbau/frontale and Holz-Handwerk take place again together at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from Wednesday to Saturday, 31 March to 3 April 2004
Glass
Processing & Glazing - New Delhi 2004
Services International is organising Glass Processing &
Glazing - Exhibition and Conference to be held at Pragati
Maidan, New Delhi, India from 24th-26th March, 2004
Exhibition
List
for upcoming exhibitions in the UK and the rest of the world.
A
40 tonne Pilkington Float Liner
vehicle became one of the stars of the show at this year's Yorkshire
Trucking Spectacular, with the help of Pilkington Activ™ self-cleaning
glass
Synseal
is sending three special sample cases worth almost £70,000
to fabricators and installers across the UK, to support the launch
of the new Global roof
Window,
door and conservatory brand James Harcourt
has been holding court with potential customers at this year's Wimbledon
tennis tournament
You've
got to admire Shepley's bravery
in bringing together in one box two of the country's most passionate
football fans - Manchester United and Manchester City
K2
Conservatory Roof Systems
has announced the launch of a new and improved Trade Brochure.
Hurst
Plastics
has launched a new suite of brochures for the UK and export markets
The
latest edition of Shepley's SquareOn
newsletter gives advice on how best to approach the replacing the replacements
issue, how to be health and safety conscious, and how to build a bigger
and better showroom to boost sales
Readers
of the new sdea Directory of Shopfittings
and Display can look forward to a bumper edition with more pages and information
than ever before
With
560 new products and over 400 lower prices, there is now more value for
money to be found in the latest Screwfix Direct
catalogue (issue 71)
Quality
Roofing Systems
has been awarded British Board of Agrèment (BBA) certification
following an independent inspection programme
Some
157 graduation projects were submitted for the 2003 edition of Archiprix
International from universities in the field of architecture,
urban design and landscape architecture to select their best graduation
plan for this world-wide competition
Wellingborough,
Northants based trade fabricator Glazerite
Windows has just
announced the tripling of its production capacity in three years with
the support of its PVCu profile supplier Veka plc
Recent
investments in production and administrative systems have now established
Status fabricator Colorzone
PVCu Ltd as a key supplier of coloured PVCu window and door
products for commercial, local authority and social housing contracts
Shropshire
fabricator Platinum Conservatories, Windows
and Doors have experienced a business boom, coinciding with
their move to Spectus Sightline 70 profile
When
he took over his father's Lancashire based fabrication company Town
and Country, Mike Pearson was faced with the choice of which
profile to use for windows and conservatories. From the short list of
four, he quickly narrowed it down.
'Business
has never been better', according to Premier Profiles' fabricator, St
Neots Windows and Conservatories, which has just doubled
its manufacturing plant at Eaton Socon with a new 2,500 sq. ft. unit,
and opened a brand new conservatory showroom.
John
Lennox, the transport expert for BSI,
announced in his speech on Corporate Killing at the Society of Operational
Engineers annual conference last week that more must be done in terms
of ensuring occupational health and safety (H&S) whilst driving vehicles
Work
was stopped at almost a quarter of the construction sites visited by Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors during the national blitz
on falls from height during the first two weeks of June.
Product
developers, building owners and designers are taking a new look at high-performance
glass facades as key in creating buildings with improved access to daylight,
better indoor air quality and improved energy efficiency. But a facade
that helps improve a building's interior environment and limits its
loss of energy is not enough, say some sources. A building's skin should
be a power generator rather than an energy liability.
Within
the next few months, the roof of San Francisco's Moscone Convention
Centre will be covered with 65,000 sq ft of photovoltaic panels.
Dennis
Sumner snr reflects on his German double-glazing experiences and outlines
his company's profile bending processes
Over
80% of the window sector in the German-speaking countries shows interest
in the possible uses of modified solid wood for window manufacture,
the latest study by the consultants of InterConnection shows.
Features
now archived include:
Designers must now comply with regulations to limit solar
overheating in buildings, as Paul Littlefair of BRE explains.
Dave
Frost on the implications of CE Marking to the sealed unit manufacturer:
Phil Mundell on what Part M means to the Door Manufacturer;
Full
list here
You can't help feeling that most companies can't quite believe that
they are still in the black, and that business is at least adequate.
Of course, it's not that cushy for everyone, and this week's list of
Financial Notices from the Insolvency Courts makes sobering reading.
Anyway, keep the faith, not everyone's going bust and England may even
win the Test Series.
Oh, one more example of unusual goings-on: the normally genteel Alan
Burgess has gone on the warpath (read his email!).
Just one more thing - in this week's Gl@zine there are no fewer than
64, yes, sixty four, new articles. I think that may be some kind of
record, but I'll have to get back to you on that.
Tony Higgin, Publisher
tony@theglazine.com
Unreliable
Statistics (Part 2)
Mike
Rigby is right that we should treat all published statistics with caution
('Unreliable Statistics', Glazine 1st July). The comparison of the OFT
report to which he refers with the annual installation rate of conservatories
is a case in point..
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Frames
People to Start Making the Headlines
I
can now confirm that Masterframe Windows is suing for 'passing off'
a company in Southampton, who have copied our photos, even used the
same text would you believe, and we have 'customers' who thought they
had bought our windows only to find they haven't.
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the Rest of this Email Here]
Pilkington
Activ™ Self-Cleaning Glass Added to Standard Product Range
Pilkington
Activ™, the self-cleaning glass, is now widely available in the
UK, allowing British companies to take full advantage of the sales
potential offered by a product that finally fulfils the promise of
virtually 'maintenance-free windows'.
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on this Story]
Synseal
Wins Jacksons Deal
Synseal
Extrusions Ltd has signed a deal with Jacksons Building Centre to
supply its windows, doors and conservatories. Jacksons 27,000sq ft
fabrication facility supplies 20 of its branches nationwide.
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Insolvencies,
winding up orders, petitions and creditors' meetings
The
following Notices have appeared in the past couple of weeks. They include
notifications of creditors' meetings, winding up orders and final creditors'
meetings. These include Glass & Panel Manufacturers Ltd, Premier
Windows (Southwest) Ltd, Window Warehouse (Preston) Ltd, 21st Century
Windows Ltd, Whyglaze Windows Ltd, Harrow Glass Ltd, Door-Tec (GRP)
Ltd, Oakland Glass Ltd, Mainstream Double Glazing Ltd, Rainbow Window
Systems Ltd, Window Merchant Ltd (t/a Direct Windows), Express Windows
Ltd, Nu-Life Windows & Fabrications Ltd (previously known as Nu-Life
Windows and Conservatories Ltd)..
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Mixed
Fortunes in House Building Market
John
Laing, the UK construction and services company, made further progress
in its strategy to exit the housing business with the sale recently
of its remaining minority stake in US builder WL Homes for $42.5m in
cash.
Taylor Woodrow, which also issued a trading statement last week,
reported the UK housing market had returned to more normal conditions
and Crest Nicholson too issued an upbeat assessment of the housing
market. Costain Group is 'ahead of plan in meeting its objectives'.
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British
Standards Institute Agrees to Grant Online Licence
The
British Standards Institute has granted an online licence to Barbour
Index plc following an investigation by the OFT into an alleged abuse
of a dominant position. The OFT has now closed its case without reaching
any conclusion on whether BSI holds a dominant position or has abused
any such position.
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Restructuring
Heralds New Era for Wright & Offland
Recent
restructuring of the Board at Float Glass lndustries - a member of the
independent Wright & Offland Group of Companies marks the culmination
of a period of recent change for the company backed by 107 years of
experience in the glass business.
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BBA
to Certify New Quality Mark Scheme
The
BBA is now involved in administering a new Quality Mark Scheme, recently
set up by the Government. The aim of this scheme is to enable the public
to gain access to independently inspected and approved tradesmen.
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on this Story]
Black
& Decker to Acquire Masco's Baldwin Hardware and Weiser Lock Businesses
Masco
Corporation and The Black & Decker Corporation announced on July
1st that they have signed a letter of intent in which Black & Decker
will purchase from Masco Corporation the Baldwin Hardware and Weiser
Lock businesses.
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on this Story]
MPH
and Sheerframe in Multi-Million Pound Fusion 21 Windows Deal
Preston-based
Sheerframe windowmaker MPH Windows has won a contract - which could
be worth up to £15 million - to supply Sheerframe PVC windows
to housing associations in the region as part of a major home improvements
programme
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on this Story]
Asahi
Glass Purchase Partners Equity and Triple Automotive Safety Glass Business
in China
Asahi
Glass Co., Ltd. recently announced plans to significantly expand its
automotive safety glass business in China through a minority buy-out
of its existing joint venture in China - Qinhuangdao Haiyan Safety Glass
(QHSG), and the construction of a new state-of-the-art facility in Qinhuangdao
Economic & Technological Development Zone (QETD Zone), Hebei Province,
China.
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on this Story]
EWS
Breaks Monthly Sales Records for Reinforcement and Spacer
EWS
(Manufacturing) Ltd, the UK supplier of steel reinforcement and aluminium
spacer tube, announced record sales of over 4 million metres in June
2003.
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Easy
Clean Polycarbonate Roof Sheets: First from Wendland
Conservatory
roof manufacturer Wendland now offers a new polycarbonate roof sheet
that helps to keep itself clean, adding the product to the self-cleaning
glass the company showed on its stand at Glassex.
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on this Story]
Lindman's
Doors Prove their Durability
Nearly
20 years after Lindman first pioneered the new concept of composite
doorsets in the UK, early examples installed in the 1980s are still
living up to their guarantee of durability, weatherproofing, impact
resistance and high security.
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on this Story]
Rotherham
Metropolitan Launches into Commercial Supply and Fit
The
window fabrication department at Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
marked its launch into the commercial supply and fit market with an
impressive stand at the recent Windowfab exhibition at Donington Park
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on this Story]
Budget
Windows I.O.W. Ltd (B.W.C.) Aims for Quality
HW
Systems customer Budget Windows I.O.W. Ltd, has successfully passed
the accreditation for the Government's Quality Mark and become a member
of HW Plastics' Approved Installer Membership Scheme (AIMS).
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on this Story]
Another
Supplier Joins BWF’s Fire Door Scheme
Manufacturing
Members of the BWF-CERTIFIRE Fire Door & Doorset Scheme now have
another source of certificated fire door seals available, this time
from newly approved supplier, Astroflame Fire Seals Ltd.
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Cream
of the (Non) Crop
Hardware distributor, Wagner (GB) Ltd, is now stocking the TSL (Twin-cam
Security Lock) window locking mechanism from Roto
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on this Story]
Improved
Cornering from Patio Specilaist Sliders UK
In
its drive to constantly improve quality, patio specialist Sliders UK
has chosen a new CNC corner cleaner from Elumatec.
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on this Story]
Kleentec
Coating Sails to Ireland
When superferry Stena Adventurer goes into service on the Irish Sea
this month her captain Roy Forsyth will have a clear and safe view from
the bridge. His vessel has one of the grandest sets of bridge windows
on any ferry, but the glass in them has also been treated with a 'non-stick'
coating by Preston window coatings expert Nigel Whitaker.
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FEWA
- a New Source of Fire Resistant Glass in the UK
FEWA-Glastechnik GmbH Is an independent manufacturer of fire resistant
glasses and framing material and holds all the relevant European building
authority certificates and United Kingdom fire test certificates for
30-60 and 90 minutes. FEWA - Glastechnik products are now supplied exclusively
in the United Kingdom by I.G.A. of Belgium in co-operation with Fire
& Safety Glass UK.
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Arnold
Deceuninck Succeeds Roger Deceuninck as Chairman of the Deceuninck Board
of Directors
Deceuninck
N.V., worldwide producer of PVCu window systems and building profiles,
announced on 24th June that Arnold Deceuninck succeeds his father Roger
Deceuninck as Chairman of the Deceuninck Board of Directors.
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OFT
Reviews Home Improvements Payment Protection Schemes
The payment protection schemes administered by Qualitas and used by
B&Q, MFI, the Homeform Group and Magnet are under review by the
OFT.
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